2023Simone Luciani, Nestore Mangone
- Videos
- 100
- Creators
- 74
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight

2015Virginio Gigli, Simone Luciani
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Grand Austria Hotel is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 33 reviews, 22 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 4 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In the thick of the Viennese modern age, exquisite cafés are competing for customers. Inspiring artists, important politicians, and tourists from all over the world are populating Vienna and in need of a hotel room. This is your opportunity to turn your little café into a world famous hotel. Hire staff, fulfill the wishes of your guests, and gain the emperor's favor. Only then will your café become the Grand Austria Hotel. The start player rolls the dice, sorting them by the rolled number and placing them on the corresponding action spaces. On a turn, a player chooses one of the six actions and carries it out. The number of the available dice in the corresponding action spaces determines how much the player gets from the action. They then remove one of the dice and can carry out additional actions. With the different actions, a player can get the necessary drinks and dishes, prepare the rooms, or hire staff. But no hotel can grow without guests. To choose wisely which guests to attract and to complete their orders brings some important bonus actions. The staff cards also have different advantages, but the game ends after seven rounds and no player can do everything they want, so whoever makes the right decisions and finds the best way to create bonus actions will win. With 116 different cards and a new set-up in each game, Grand Austria Hotel provides a huge replay value. Each game stands on its own and demands new tactics and strategies.
Grand Austria Hotel has 72 videos from 60 creators: 33 reviews, 22 how-to-play guides, 8 playthroughs, 5 unboxings and 4 other videos. They date from 2015 to February 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Walkthrough Videos #43: Grand Austria Hotel" by Michael Wißner, which runs 47 min. For a quicker teach, "How to Play Grand Austria Hotel Board Game (5 minutes)" by JestaThaRogue runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Grand Austria Hotel Gameplay Runthrough" by Rahdo Runs Through. 31 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "jPlay walks through Grand Austria Hotel - EP1" by jPlay, one of 8 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Darwin's Journey, Nucleum, Tiletum and Barrage, also by Simone Luciani. It appears in convention videos from Spiel Essen 2015.
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2023Simone Luciani, Nestore Mangone
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
2023Simone Luciani, Dávid Turczi
1 - 4 players60 - 150 minVery heavy weight
2022Simone Luciani, Daniele Tascini
1 - 4 players60 - 100 minHeavy weight
2019Tommaso Battista, Simone Luciani
1 - 4 players90 - 180 minVery heavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In the thick of the Viennese modern age, exquisite cafés are competing for customers. Inspiring artists, important politicians, and tourists from all over the world are populating Vienna and in need of a hotel room. This is your opportunity to turn your little café into a world famous hotel. Hire staff, fulfill the wishes of your guests, and gain the emperor's favor. Only then will your café become the Grand Austria Hotel. The start player rolls the dice, sorting them by the rolled number and placing them on the corresponding action spaces. On a turn, a player chooses one of the six actions and carries it out. The number of the available dice in the corresponding action spaces determines how much the player gets from the action. They then remove one of the dice and can carry out additional actions. With the different actions, a player can get the necessary drinks and dishes, prepare the rooms, or hire staff. But no hotel can grow without guests. To choose wisely which guests to attract and to complete their orders brings some important bonus actions. The staff cards also have different advantages, but the game ends after seven rounds and no player can do everything they want, so whoever makes the right decisions and finds the best way to create bonus actions will win. With 116 different cards and a new set-up in each game, Grand Austria Hotel provides a huge replay value. Each game stands on its own and demands new tactics and strategies.
Designers
Virginio Gigli, Simone Luciani
Artist
Klemens Franz
Publisher
Lookout Games
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